I have problem with base file installation

1998-04-27 Thread Philippe BARBELET
Hi Debian Linux Users, I have loaded from ftp.debian.org site all files to install the Linux base on a PC. All was good but... The installation program read the 5 floppy disks from "base-1" to "base-5" but at the end it wrote "Error: checksum is not good". I built the 5 disks again as it was wri

Re: I have problem with base file installation

1998-04-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Philippe BARBELET wrote: : Hi Debian Linux Users, : : I have loaded from ftp.debian.org site all files to install the Linux : base on a : PC. All was good but... : : The installation program read the 5 floppy disks from "base-1" to : "base-5" : but at the end it wrote "Error

Re: I have problem with base file installation

1998-04-27 Thread Marc Meier
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 09:41:36AM -0700, Philippe BARBELET wrote: > > The installation program read the 5 floppy disks from "base-1" to > "base-5" > but at the end it wrote "Error: checksum is not good". > > I built the 5 disks again as it was written whith the rawrite2 program > and whith an ot

Re: I have problem with base file installation

1998-04-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hi Philippe, You either have some no-so-good floppies, or maybe your floppy drive is out of spec. Seeing that you have access to a *nix box, I would use dd to create the disks and then use dd and md5sum to check them. That way you will _know_ that they are good before you start the install.